Snappy

Snappy is a desktop-capture software for Windows that allows users to capture the screen of your computer and edit the image, such as its RGB settings, brightness, contrast etc. It also features a very interest “Event Capture” option, allowing you to take a screenshot of your desktop when specified events occur. Moreover, it also allows you to export the screenshots in BMP, JPEG, PNG, PDF, XML and AVI formats. More on Snappy after the break.

It can be downloaded from the developer's page at
http://www.ondanera.net/ita/snappy.aspx

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Wise Disk Cleaner

Wise Disk Cleaner is a free disk utility designed to help you keep your disk clean by deleting any unnecessary files. Wise Disk Cleaner, with its intuitive and easy to use interface, helps to quickly wipe out all the junk files. It works quite fast while scanning for files and deleting them.

The developers aver that it the first system slimming tool that removes Windows useless files, Windows Sample music, videos, pictures, Installers and Uninstallers of Updates Patches etc.

Wise Disk Cleaner supports Windows XP/Vista /7/8 (All Editions, including 32-bit and 64-bit) and server 2000, 2003 and 2008.

http://www.wisecleaner.com/soft/WDCFree.exe

Search Engine DuckDuckGo

I just came to know about the search engine DuckDuckGo, perhaps, some of you may know about it, already...

It promises these features:

• Way more instant answers.
• Way less spam and clutter.
• Lots and lots of goodies.
• Real privacy.

Search results are gathered from crowd-sourced sites, such as Wikipedia,
Yahoo! Search BOSS, Wolfram Alpha, and DuckDuckBot (its own web crawler), in
order to pad its "zero-click info" boxes with topic summaries and related
topics.

It professes a privacy policy that does not store IP addresses, does not log
user information, and only uses cookies when necessary.

Anonymous and encrypted searching through Tor.

It has been voted as one of the Top 50 Best Websites of 2011 by TIME and PC
Magazine. You can check it out at www.duckduckgo.com

Readability - Firefox extension

Readabillity - a Firefox extension

Readability provides you with the finest experience for reading webpages online, when it turns your webpage for comfortable and cleaner reading, right within your browser. You can now view multipage articles within a single page, as well as take printouts of the article directly, without all the background clutter.

You can mark favorites and save your articles for later reading while offline. Configure the appearance of your page, the font, font color, size etc. Finally you can share the article through social networking sites like Facebook and Twitter. You're one click away from the best reading experience. wink

Home: http://www.readability.com/
Install: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/readability/

Sourced from Gizmo Freeware

Ninite, an easy way to Update or Install Software

Ninite, a freeware utility, can cut hours off software re-installation time when you reformat a disk, do a clean install, or start a new system. It is essentially a tiny installer that will automatically manage and download other freeware packages.  Available for Windows and, more recently, Ubuntu 8 and higher, it automatically hunts for and installs free utilities like DropBox and 7-Zip to recently reformatted or new systems.

“Ninite doesn’t support adware or other ad supported junk either,” says Jeremy Lesniak, founder of VAR consultancy Vermont Computing in Duxbury, VT.

http://ninite.com/

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USB Disk Manager

USB Disk Manager is small and easy to configure Windows utility which helps you use your USB disks more securely.

Now a days one of the most common way of the software virus infection and spread is through the use of USB disks i.e. the virus tries to automatically copy itself to and from the USB disks to the host machine. USB Disk Manager helps you avoid these situations by making the write projecting the USB Disks so that virus can't copy itself to new USB Flash disks, and also disables execution of the virus files directly from the USB disks thus avoiding the automatically copying and spreading of the viruses from the USB disks to your machine.

http://www.syedgakbar.com/products/usb/download/USBDiskManager.zip

StartPage - a search engine with a difference

If you are paranoid about Privacy- check out www.startpage.com - apparently it provides you Google's search results without storing any of your personal/private data. Yes, Startpage assures that it does NOT record your IP address !

CloudShot

CloudShot - screen shotter for Dropbox. It is a small utility for taking screenshots with some interesting features.

- Ability to integrate with Dropbox.
- Ability to take a screenshots of screen region.
- Ability to take a screenshots of the window (by click in window).
- Ability to take screenshots of the menus and tooltips.
- It is also supported by work with multiple monitors.
- History of recent shots (just 10 shots now).
- Text labels for your shots.

Status: Beta Beta: This software is probably stable enough for use
Rating :No Ratings
Downloads: 3860

http://cloudshot.codeplex.com/releases/69182/clickOnce/CloudShot.application

Grazely

Grazely is an innovative online bookmarking tool. In addition to its basic web-based bookmarking features – which you can use to save articles from anywhere online and retrieve those articles from any browser or mobile device. Grazely also includes a feature that makes it easy to share website links with the people you consider a part of your closest business teams or social groups.

Features

Works With Every Browser

Now save links without downloading an add-on to your browser. No more problems when switching between, computer and tablet, or Mac and PC. Use your home computer, work computer, even your wi-fi enabled devices (tablet, smartphone), your links will still be accessible.

Secure Bookmarking

Save your bookmarks securely with encryption. Not everyone needs encryption, but for designers and developers building intranets, PR teams, startups founders, and businesses sharing information - it can makes life easier. You choose which bookmarks are public and which are private.

All Web Enabled Devices

Change devices with ease and have your bookmarks all saved in one location. Use your computer at home or work, your links will still be accessible on Grazely. Usually, when going from work to home, your important links are never accessible - Grazely solves that!

Find It Fast!

Searching through a pile of bookmarks in your browser can be a daunting task. We had the same headache as you. That's why our search feature is incredibly fast and accurate. If you search for "icons", BAM!, you got it! Cruise through your own tags, or search the entire database to find cool sites that you're actually interested in.

Double Keyword Tagging

Forget the old way of saving bookmarks. There's no more having to save tags as one single word. Now you can be a tagging pro, saving your bookmarks "awesome work", instead of "awesomework". We love clarity here at Grazely.

Nothing to Download

There's nothing to download and no software license to buy. We use a bookmarklet so you can save links from any web site you visit with 2 clicks of the mouse. If you don't want to use the bookmarklet, just login to Grazely to save your links. Awesomely simple and cool!

Grazely is in Beta, It may take minutes, hours, or even days, to receive your Invite to login to it.

http://www.grazely.com/user/registerbeta

Mouse Gestures For Better Productivity

Mouse gestures are specific movements that are recognized and translated into quick actions, like forward and backward browsing or opening a program, and more.

StrokesPlus is a free mouse gesture recognition program similar to StrokeIt. It is written in native Win32/x64 and does not require a hefty runtime like .NET, it only consumes 250-500k of RAM while running, utilizes Lua scripting for actions and provides a great deal of power and flexibility. For common day to day use, the default 50 actions that come with StrokesPlus is more than sufficient. You can also check out the postings in the forum for usage hints or visit http://www.strokesplus.com/help/

http://www.strokesplus.com/forum/forum.asp?FORUM_ID=6